Origins of Blues

ORIGINS OF BLUES

Blues new term officially adopted in 1910.Blues is a flow musikvokal and instrumental from the United States (U.S.). Name blues born from the term that connoted with blue and melankolis.Musik bluesberangkat frustatif feeling of spiritual music and praise that emerged from the former community of African slaves in the U.S.. And began to grow rapidly in the 19th century AD, the U.S..

According to the author, scientist and researcher at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in New York, Sylviane Diouf, the Blues have a relationship with the Muslim community in the African tradition Barat.Untuk prove the link between American blues music with Muslim tradition, Diouf plays two recordings. The first playback of the public who are present in a room is chanting prayer Harvard University (call for Muslims to perform prayers). After that, Diouf Levee Camp Holler play.

The second recording is the old blues song that first appeared in the Mississippi Delta about 100 years ago. Levee Camp Holler is not a blues song that is fairly common. The song was created by the black community of West African Muslim origin who worked in the American post-war Levee Camp Holler Sipil.lagu stressed-sounding words tremble. According to Diouf, the nasal style between laguBlues Levee Cam Holler similar prayer is also evidence of a linkage between the two.

Ethnomusikologi Professor of the University of Mainz, Germany, named Prof. Gehard Kubik also wrote a book on relations with Islamic civilization Blues music in West Africa entitled, Africa and the Blues, who published the University Press of Mississippi in 1999.Prof Kubik has been proved. "Blues singers vocal style mostly using melisma, wavy intonation. Vocal style as it is a relic of the people in West Africa who have been in contact with the world of Islam since the 7th century, and 8 M, "he said. Melisma use many tones in one syllable.